Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking judgment, realism, or firmness.
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- adjective informal Lacking
sound judgment orresolve ;stupid ;weak-minded .
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Examples
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As it's a bit difficult to brush aside Dagan as a softheaded idealist, our policy makers will find another way not to listen.
Carlo Strenger: Israel's Bunker Mentality Carlo Strenger 2010
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So we continue to demonize each other as, respectively, ignorant racists or softheaded appeasers.
Daniel Cubias: Immigration Reform: An Unbridgeable Gap? 2010
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So we continue to demonize each other as, respectively, ignorant racists or softheaded appeasers.
Daniel Cubias: Immigration Reform: An Unbridgeable Gap? 2010
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As it's a bit difficult to brush aside Dagan as a softheaded idealist, our policy makers will find another way not to listen.
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And surely there are reasons for buying local that might strike the unsentimental as a little softheaded.
Guessing at Michael Pollan's take on NAIS and industry's "fake food safety" bills. 2009
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His views sound almost old-fashioned these days-too softheaded, you might say-but they offer a compelling counterpoint to those arguing for the quick fix.
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Bush seemed to be laying down a marker to distinguish a hardheaded U.S. foreign policy he would conduct from softheaded diversions of American resources into nation-building and humanitarian intervention favored by liberal Democrats.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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Alphaliberal is a fine example of what happens when softheaded socialism is taught to young people, without any doses of hard reality.
If we're all supposed to see that Obama is a socialist, and then he wins by a landslide... Ann Althouse 2008
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The rap on Barack Obama, at least in the realm of foreign policy, has been that he is a softheaded idealist who thinks that he can charm America's enemies.
Obama Abroad 2008
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Blaming a liberal, softheaded Congress for that fate makes little sense.
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